by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I talked to a conservative relative recently and they said they will “never” trust the CDC again — ever. They are still seething over the perceived errors and missteps of the COVID era. I keep asking this person what exactly they want from the CDC and usually it boils down to they want liberals, in general, to take a long walk off a short pier.
And things get really wild when I note that if they get the solutions they want for the “border crisis” that the same dynamic they so hated with COVID could apply to that particular situation, too.
The issue is, of course, that there will be no “era accountability” unless, well, we break a few eggs — probably some combination of civil war / revolution. We would have to have a Second Reconstruction whereby there was some sort of “reset” where we all got a little bit — but not all — of what we wanted.
And if you throw in WW3 happening during an American civil war / revolution, then during the process of putting everything back together — if the liberal Good Guys win, that is — we might start to address global issues like global climate change and AI, too.
But that is really speculative. And things could go any number of ways I just can’t predict.
